Fingerprint pattern
The crossword clue "Fingerprint pattern" is answered by WHORL, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WHORL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WHORL answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for WHORL
Every other clue in this collection answered by WHORL, most used first.
- Fingerprint feature - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Fingerprint ridge - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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